Family Staphylinidae Latreille 1802 (rove beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Synonym: Silphidae Latreille 1807
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467
Parent taxon: Staphylinoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Carpenter 1992, Crowson 1981, Haupt 1956, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Webster 2016
Sister taxa: Agyrtidae, Colonidae, Dasyceridae, Empelidae, Hydraenidae, Jacobsoniidae, Leiodidae, Ptiliidae
Subtaxa: Heterosilpha Miosilpha Nicrophorinae Silphinae
Type: Staphylinus
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